Ohio Code 1782.14 – Liability for false statement in certificate
If any certificate of limited partnership, amendment, or cancellation contains a false statement of a material fact, one who suffers loss by reasonable reliance on the statement may recover damages for the loss from all of the following:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 1782.14
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- General partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement and named in the certificate of limited partnership as a general partner. See Ohio Code 1782.01
- Partner: means a limited or general partner. See Ohio Code 1782.01
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means any natural person; partnership, limited partnership, trust, estate, association, limited liability company, or corporation; any custodian, nominee, trustee, executor, administrator, or other fiduciary; or any other individual or entity in its own or any representative capacity. See Ohio Code 1782.01
(A) Any person who executes the certificate, or causes another to execute it on his behalf, and knew, and any general partner who knew or should have known, that the statement was materially false at the time the certificate was executed;
(B) Any general partner who knows or should have known that the statement had become materially false and who did not cancel or amend the certificate, or file a petition for its cancellation or amendment, within a sufficient time before the certificate was reasonably relied upon by another.